Dr. Mark Musen

Dr.
Mark Musen

Professor of Medicine, Professor of Computer
Science, Head of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research,
Stanford University, USA and Advisory Board Member, International Journal of
BioSciences and Technology

Dr.
Mark Musen is Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) and Computer
Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University, where he is head of the Stanford
Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. He holds an MD from Brown
University and a PhD from Stanford.

Dr.
Musen conducts research related to intelligent systems, the Semantic Web,
reusable ontologies and knowledge representations, and biomedical decision
support. His long-standing work on a system known as Protégé has led to an
open-source technology now used by thousands of developers around the world to
build intelligent computer systems and new computer applications for e-science
and the Semantic Web.He is known for his research on the application of
intelligent computer systems to assist health-care workers in
guideline-directed therapy and in management of clinical trials. He is
principal investigator of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology, one of
the seven National Centers for Biomedical Computing supported by the NIH
Roadmap.

In
1989, Dr. Musen received the Young Investigator Award for Research in Medical
Knowledge Systems from the American Association of Medical Systems and
Informatics. He received a Young Investigator Award from the National Science
Foundation in 1992. In 2006, he was recipient of the Donald A. B. Lindberg
Award for Innovation in Informatics from the American Medical Informatics
Association.Dr. Musen sits on the editorial boards of several journals related
to biomedical informatics and computer science. He is co-editor of the Handbook
of Medical Informatics (Springer-Verlag, 1997) and co-editor-in-chief of
the journal Applied Ontology.